![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 18.02 Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2007 - MIT OpenCourseWare This course covers vector and multi-variable calculus. It is the second semester in the freshman calculus sequence. Topics include vectors and matrices, partial derivatives, double and triple integrals, and vector calculus in 2 and 3-space. MIT OpenCourseWare offers another version of 18.02, from the Spring 2006 term. Both versions cover the same material, although they are taught by different faculty and rely on different textbooks... Keywords: calculus; calculus of several variables; vector algebra; determinants; matrix; matrices; vector-valued function; space motion; scalar function; partial differentiation; gradient; optimization techniques; double integrals; line integrals; exact differential; conservative fields; Green's theorem; triple integrals; surface integrals; divergence theorem Stokes' theorem; applications Downloads: 154,439 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MITPE.210S07 - MIT OpenCourseWare This course will thoroughly educate the successful student with the knowledge and skills necessary to be a certified beginning SCUBA diver. The prerequisite for the course is passing the MIT SCUBA swim test and demonstrating a "comfort level" in the water. At the end of the class, students will attempt to pass the certification exam to become certified divers. The class is taught in two parts each week: a classroom session and a pool session... Keywords: SCUBA; diving; physics; water; ocean; neutral buoyancy; regulator; decompression; rescue; swim techniques; kick cycles; marine life; ocean environment; navigation; dive tables; air consumption; snorkeling; skin diving; NAUI Downloads: 5,360 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011 Instructor: Prof. John Gabrieli This course is a survey of the scientific study of human nature, including how the mind works, and how the brain supports the mind. Topics include the mental and neural bases of perception, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, child development, personality, psychopathology, and social interaction. Students will consider how such knowledge relates to debates about nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self, and society... Keywords: psychology Downloads: 57,584 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism - MIT OpenCourseWare 8.02 Classical Theory of Electromagnetism. In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Telescopes, Interferometers, Particle Accelerators (a.k.a... Keywords: Introduction to electromagnetism and electrostatics, electric charge, Coulomb's law, electric structure of matter, conductors, dielectrics, Concepts of electrostatic field and potential, electrostatic energy, Electric currents, magnetic fields, Ampere's law, Magnetic materials, Time-varying fields, Faraday's law of induction, Basic electric circuits, Electromagnetic waves, Maxwell's equations, lightning, pacemakers, electric shock treatment, electrocardiograms, metal detectors, musical instruments, magnetic levitation, bullet trains, electric motors, radios, TV, car coils, superconductivity, aurora borealis, rainbows, radio telescopes, interferometers, particle accelerators (a.k.a. atom smashers or colliders), mass spectrometers, red sunsets, blue skies, haloes around sun and moon, color perception, Doppler effect, super-novae, binary stars, neutron stars, black holes Downloads: 259,862 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007 - MIT OpenCourseWare Instructor: Prof. David Jerison This introductory calculus course covers differentiation and integration of functions of one variable, with applications. Note: the review for the exam in lecture 7 is not comprehensive because the students already have practice exams available to them. There is no lecture 8 video because the exam was given during this session. View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/18-01F06 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms M... Keywords: differentiation; integration; functions; single variable; limits; continuity; differentiation rules; extremum problems; definite; indefinite; fundamental theorem of calculus; elementary; techniques of integration; approximation of definite integrals; improper integrals; l'Hôpital's rule Downloads: 170,610 Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 6.00SC Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Spring 2011 Instructor: Professor John Guttag Collection of 26 lectures given during the Spring 2011 semester of 6.00, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. This course covers introductory computer science methods and topics. All programming assignments use Python. View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-00SCS11 Keywords: programming; Python; computation; function; module; parameter; tuples; lists; strings; dictionaries; search methods; object oriented programming; OOP; analytic methods; simulation; algorithm; optimization; psuedocode; numpy; dynamic programming Downloads: 91,434 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[unknown]](/images/mediatype_unknown.gif) | Lecture 01a: Overview and Introduction to Lisp The first lecture of twenty from MIT's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs course. Keywords: Sussman; MIT; Abelson; lecture; computer science Downloads: 28,772 Average rating: (3 reviews) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 18.03 Differential Equations, Spring 2006 - MIT OpenCourseWare Differential Equations are the language in which the laws of nature are expressed. Understanding properties of solutions of differential equations is fundamental to much of contemporary science and engineering. Ordinary differential equations (ODE's) deal with functions of one variable, which can often be thought of as time. Topics include: Solution of first-order ODE's by analytical, graphical and numerical methods; Linear ODE's, especially second order with constant coefficients; Undetermined ... Keywords: Ordinary Differential Equations, ODE, modeling physical systems, first-order ODE's, Linear ODE's, second order ODE's, second order ODE's with constant coefficients, Undetermined coefficients, variation of parameters, Sinusoidal signals, exponential signals, oscillations, damping, resonance, Complex numbers and exponentials, Fourier series, periodic solutions, Delta functions, convolution, Laplace transform methods Matrix systems, first order linear systems, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Non-linear autonomous systems, critical point analysis, phase plane diagrams Downloads: 138,172 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005 - MIT OpenCourseWare *Please note that Lecture 4 is unavailable in a higher quality format. Instructor/speaker: Prof. Gilbert Strang View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/18-06S05 This is a basic subject on matrix theory and linear algebra. Emphasis is given to topics that will be useful in other disciplines, including systems of equations, vector spaces, determinants, eigenvalues, similarity, and positive definite matrices... Keywords: systems of equations, vector spaces, positive definite matrices, matrix theory, linear algebra, determinants, eigenvalues, similarity, least-squares approximations, stability of differential equations, networks, Fourier transforms, Markov processes Downloads: 235,685 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999 - MIT OpenCourseWare Instructor: Walter Lewin 8.01 is a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory. In addition to the basic concepts of Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory, a variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stellar Collapse, Supernovae, Astronomical observations from very high flying balloons (lecture 35), and you will be al... Keywords: units of measurement, powers of ten, dimensional analysis, measurement uncertainty, scaling arguments, velocity, speed, acceleration, acceleration of gravity, vectors, motion, vector product, scalar product, projectiles, projectile trajectory, circular motion, centripetal motion, artifical gravity, force, Newton's Three Laws, eight, weightlessness, tension, friction, frictionless forces, static friction, dot products, cross products, kinematics, springs, pendulum, mechanical energy, kinetic energy, universal gravitation, resistive force, drag force, air drag, viscous terminal velocity, potential energy, heat, energy consumption, collisions, center of mass, momentum, Newton's Cradle, impulse and impact, rocket thrust, rocket velocity, flywheels, inertia, torque, spinning rod, elliptical orbits, Kepler's Laws, Doppler shift, stellar dynamics, sound waves, electromagnets, binary star, black holes, rope tension, elasticity, speed of sound, pressure in fluid, Pascal's Principle, hydrostatic pressure, barometric pressure, submarines, buoyant force, Bernoulli's Equations, Archimede's Principle, floating, baloons, resonance, wind instruments, thermal expansion, shrink fitting, particles and waves, diffraction Downloads: 294,010 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005 - MIT OpenCourseWare This is a basic subject on matrix theory and linear algebra. Emphasis is given to topics that will be useful in other disciplines, including systems of equations, vector spaces, determinants, eigenvalues, similarity, and positive definite matrices. Keywords: systems of equations, vector spaces, positive definite matrices, matrix theory, linear algebra, determinants, eigenvalues, similarity, least-squares approximations, stability of differential equations, networks, Fourier transforms, Markov processes Downloads: 37,672 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT Understanding Lasers and Fiberoptics - MIT OpenCourseWare Lasers are essential to an incredibly large number of applications. Today, they are used in bar code readers, compact discs, medicine, communications, sensors, materials processing, computer printers, data processing, 3D-imaging, spectroscopy, navigation, non-destructive testing, chemical processing, color copiers, laser "shows", and in the military. There is hardly a field untouched by the laser. But what exactly is so unique about lasers that makes them so effective? This brief video course is... Keywords: lasers; fiberoptics; unique properties; oscillator; optical amplifiers; simple laser operations; optimum power output; spontaneous emission broadening; collision broadening; Doppler broadening; spectrum of laser light; multifrequency output from lasers; optics of laser beams; manipulation of laser beams; amplifier limitations; laser cavities; single frequency selection; frequency stability of lasers; intensity stability of lasers; laser transverse modes; spectrum of transverse modes; Q-switching of lasers; cavity dumping of lasers; mode locking of lasers; laser categories; optically-pumped lasers; broadband optically-pumped lasers; bandwidth reduction and tuning of broadband lasers; electron-collision-pumped lasers; atom-collision-pumped lasers; chemically-pumped lasers; electron-current-injection-pumped lasers; survey of popular lasers; laser applications; high beam collimation; small spot size; tunable wavelength; narrow spectral width; high intensity; short pulse Downloads: 5,008 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT OCW - 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - MIT This course introduces students to the principles of computation. Upon completion of 6.001, students should be able to explain and apply the basic methods from programming languages to analyze computational systems, and to generate computational solutions to abstract problems. This is the MP4 version for smaller file size and iPod compatibility. "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has been MIT's introductory pre-professional computer science subject since 1981... Keywords: ocw; mit; opencourseware Downloads: 87,080 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Highlights of Calculus - MIT OpenCourseWare Highlights of Calculus is a series of videos that introduce the fundamental concepts of calculus to both high school and college students. Renowned mathematics professor, Gilbert Strang, will guide students through a number of calculus topics to help them understand why calculus is relevant and important to understand. View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/highlights-of-calculus License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.m... Keywords: Gilbert Strang; Calculus; Highlights; Fundamentals Downloads: 46,374 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008 - MIT OpenCourseWare The goal of this course is to illustrate the spectroscopy of small molecules in the gas phase: quantum mechanical effective Hamiltonian models for rotational, vibrational, and electronic structure; transition selection rules and relative intensities; diagnostic patterns and experimental methods for the assignment of non-textbook spectra; breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation (spectroscopic perturbations); the stationary phase approximation; nondegenerate and quasidegenerate perturbatio... Keywords: spectroscopy; harmonic oscillators; matrix; hamiltonian; heisenberg; vibrating rotor; Born-Oppenheimer; diatomics; laser schemes; angular momentum; hund's cases; energy levels; second-order effects; perturbations; Wigner-Eckart; Rydberg-Klein-Rees; rigid rotor; asymmetric rotor; vibronic coupling; wavepackets Downloads: 4,738 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[unknown]](/images/mediatype_unknown.gif) | Lecture 01: First Order Ordinary Differential Equations - AMPS The introductory class (of 33 lectures) in this complete course on Differential Equations. Running time is 49 minutes. Keywords: Mathematics; Differential Equations Downloads: 12,213 Average rating: (2 reviews) |
![[unknown]](/images/mediatype_unknown.gif) | MIT OCW 18.03 Differential Equations Video Lectures Spring 2004 18.03 Differential Equations video lectures from Spring 2004. 33 lectures approx 1hr each. See MPEG filenames for lecture numbers. Downloads: 284,696 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[unknown]](/images/mediatype_unknown.gif) | Lecture 21: Convolution - AMPS Recorded at MIT on April 7, 2003. Running time is 44 minutes. Keywords: Mathematics; Differential Equations Downloads: 1,217 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[unknown]](/images/mediatype_unknown.gif) | Lecture 06: Complex Numbers - AMPS The sixth lecture in this series on Differential Equations. Running time is 45 minutes. Keywords: Mathematics; Differential Equations Downloads: 1,876 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[unknown]](/images/mediatype_unknown.gif) | Lecture 16: Fourier Series Expansions - AMPS A continuation of the discussion on Fourier series. Recorded at MIT on March 17, 2003. Running time is 49 minutes. Keywords: Mathematics; Differential Equations Downloads: 1,338 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[unknown]](/images/mediatype_unknown.gif) | Lecture 09: Linear Second Order Differential Equations - AMPS The ninth lecture in this course on Differential Equations. Running time is 50 minutes. Keywords: Mathematics; Differential Equations Downloads: 1,540 Average rating: (2 reviews) |
![[unknown]](/images/mediatype_unknown.gif) | Lecture 04: Substitutions - AMPS Recorded at MIT on February 12, 2003. Running time for this class is 50 minutes. Keywords: Mathematics; Differential Equations Downloads: 1,324 Average rating: (2 reviews) |
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![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT OpenCourseWare Press Conference - April 4, 2001 On April 4, 2001, MIT President Charles Vest leads a press conference to announce the establishment of MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW), the web-based program to provide free access to MIT course content, including lecture notes, problem sets, exams and videos. Vest describes OCW as a "natural marriage of American higher education and the capabilities of the World Wide Web," and a reflection of MIT faculty's "deeply ingrained sense of service" and "incredible idealism." The discussion covers issues of... Keywords: MIT OpenCourseWare Downloads: 9 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Faculty Introduction to 6.901, Fall 2005 Faculty Introduction to 6.901, Fall 2005 Instructor: Robert Rines View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-901F05 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu Keywords: Inventions; patents; patent law; court cases; engineering patents; copyright laws; private and public rights in scientific discoveries and applied engineering; software protection; procedures in protecting inventions in the Patent Office; 6.901; 3.172; 16.652 Downloads: 3 |  |
![[unknown]](/images/mediatype_unknown.gif) | Lecture 14: Formal Polynomials - AMPS A look at linear operators on functions. Recorded at MIT on March 12, 2003. Running time is 44 minutes. Keywords: Mathematics; Differential Equations Downloads: 915 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | MIT21F.104S04 - MIT OpenCourseWare This is the continuing instruction in spoken and written Chinese, with particular emphasis on consolidating basic conversational skills and improving reading confidence and depth. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to speak Chinese with some fluency on basic conversational topics, achieve a basic level of reading competence within simplified and traditional characters learned plus common compounds, and be able to write short compositions. Keywords: chinese; languge; mandarin; reading; conversation; writing; culture; china; society; custom Downloads: 301 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | MIT CMS.801 Media in Transition, Fall 2004 - MIT OpenCourseWare This course centers on historical eras in which the form and function of media technologies were radically transformed. It includes consideration of the "Gutenberg Revolution," the rise of modern mass media, and the "digital revolution," among other case studies of media transformation and cultural change. Readings cover cultural and social history and historiographic methods. Keywords: Media; mass media; history; Gutenberg; cultural change; cultural history; social history; historiographic method; books; medieval history; codex book; writing; printing; printing press; stage; theater; renaissance; romanticism; modernity; inventions; photography; nineteenth century; image; telegraph; electrification; communication; Morse; Daguerreotype; Fox Talbot; phonograph; sound recording; radio; broadcasting; film; video; cinema; publishing Downloads: 87 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | MIT3.53S01 - MIT OpenCourseWare This course covers a variety of topics concerning superconducting magnets, including thermodynamic and transport properties of aqueous and nonaqueous electrolytes, the electrode/electrolyte interface, and the kinetics of electrode processes. It also covers electrochemical characterization with regards to d.c. techniques (controlled potential, controlled current) and a.c. techniques (voltametry and impedance spectroscopy)... Keywords: Thermodynamic and transport properties of aqueous and nonaqueous electrolytes; electrode/electrolyte interface; Kinetics of electrode processes; Electrochemical characterization; d.c. techniques (controlled potential; controlled current); a.c. techniques (voltametry and impedance spectroscopy); electrowinning; electrorefining; electroplating; electrosynthesis; electrochemical power sources (batteries and fuel cells) Downloads: 115 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MITOCW 18.03 Differential Equations Lecture 1 Spring 2004 Downloads: 140 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT OpenCourseWare Site Tour - MIT OpenCourseWare A tour of MIT OpenCourseWare. Keywords: mit opencourseware Downloads: 125 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 1.061 Transport Processes in the Environment, Fall 2008 - MIT OpenCourseWare This class serves as an introduction to mass transport in environmental flows, with emphasis given to river and lake systems. The class will cover the derivation and solutions to the differential form of mass conservation equations. Class topics to be covered will include: molecular and turbulent diffusion, boundary layers, dissolution, bed-water exchange, air-water exchange and particle transport. Keywords: river systems; lake systems; scalar transport in environmental flows; momentum transport in environmental flows; stratification in lakes; buoyancy-driven flows; settling and coagulation; air-water exchange; bed-water exchange; phase partitioning; dissolution; boundary layers; molecular diffusion; turbulent diffusion; water transportation; advection; aquatic systems; conservation of mass; derivation; Diffusion; dispersion; environmental flows; instantaneous point source; lakes; mass; transport; particle transport; rivers; scaling; transport; turbulence; water flow Downloads: 119 |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | MIT 16.01 Unified Engineering I, II, III, & IV, Fall 2005 - MIT OpenCourseWare The basic objective of Unified Engineering is to give a solid understanding of the fundamental disciplines of aerospace engineering, as well as their interrelationships and applications. These disciplines are Materials and Structures (M); Computers and Programming (C); Fluid Mechanics (F); Thermodynamics (T); Propulsion (P); and Signals and Systems (S). In choosing to teach these subjects in a unified manner, the instructors seek to explain the common intellectual threads in these disciplines, a... Keywords: Unified; Unified Engineering; aerospace; CDIO; C-D-I-O; conceive; design; implement; operate; team; team-based; discipline; materials; structures; materials and structures; computers; programming; computers and programming; fluids; fluid mechanics; thermodynamics; propulsion; signals; systems; signals and systems; systems problems; fundamentals; technical communication; graphical communication; communication; reading; research; experimentation; personal response system; prs; active learning; First law; first law of thermodynamics; thermo-mechanical; energy; energy conversion; aerospace power systems; propulsion systems; aerospace propulsion systems; heat; work; thermal efficiency; forms of energy; energy exchange; processes; heat engines; engines; steady-flow energy equation; energy flow; flows; path-dependence; path-independence; reversibility; irreversibility; state; thermodynamic state; performance; ideal cycle; simple heat engine; cycles; thermal pressures; temperatures; linear static networks; loop method; node method; linear dynamic networks; classical methods; state method Downloads: 171 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT OpenCourseWare - MIT 21M.380 Music and Technology: Live Electronics Performance Practices, Spring 2011 Sonorous Currents: A Concert of 21M.380 Live Electronics Performance Practices New works for live electronics with laptops, iPhones, circuits, and other sonological mechanisms Selections from the program: Introduction by Christopher Ariza Work II Christopher Ariza for nine or more laptops and dual-analog gamepads Fruit Loops Hsieh Chen and two other MIT students Improvisation Hsieh Chen, Chris "8-Ball" Reyes, Andrew B... Keywords: electronic music; improvisation; music synthesis; computer music; student performance Downloads: 288 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT SP.235 / ESG.SP235 Chemistry of Sports, Spring 2009 - MIT OpenCourseWare This seminar will focus on three sports: swimming, cycling and running. There will be two components to the seminar: classroom sessions and a "laboratory" in the form of a structured training program. The classroom component will introduce the students to the chemistry of their own biological system. With swimming, running and cycling as sample sports, students are encouraged to apply their knowledge to complete a triathlon shortly after the term. Keywords: cardiovascular; muscles; training; fitness; nutrition; fueling; injury; sports medicine; overuse injury; swimming; running; cycling; bicycle; bike; shoes; running shoes; lactate; lactic acid; wetsuit; lycra; spandex; wind tunnel; sports drinks; caffeine; alcohol; exercise; competition; endurance; strength; EPO; erythropoietin; scandals; tapering; triathlon; sports; race; steroid; midfoot; forefoot Downloads: 622 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT21F.105F03 - MIT OpenCourseWare This course is the continuation of 21F104/108. It is designed to further help students develop sophisticated conversational, reading and writing skills by combining traditional textbook material with their own explorations of Chinese speaking societies, using the human, literary, and electronic resources available at in the Boston area. Some of special features of Chinese society, its culture, its customs and habits, its history, and the psychology of its people are be introduced... Keywords: chinese; language; mandarin; reading; conversation; writing; culture; china; society; custom; conversational skills; reading skills; Chinese speaking societies; writing skills; Chinese society; Chinese culture; Chinese customs; Chinese history; discussion; composition; network exploration Downloads: 333 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT21F.714S03 - MIT OpenCourseWare Spanish for Bilingual Students is an intermediate course designed principally for heritage learners, but which includes other students interested in specific content areas, such as US Latino immigration, identity, ethnicity, education and representation in the media. Linguistic goals include vocabulary acquisition, improvement in writing, and enhancement of formal communicative skills. Keywords: Spanish; Language; Bilingual; Speak; Writing; Literature; Culture; History; Society; Economics; Politics; Psychology; Philosophy; Spanish; Language; Bilingual; Speak; Writing; Culture; Literature; Hispanic; oral grammar; written gramar; fiction; poetry; Mexican-Americans; Puerto Ricans; Cubans; heritage learners; Latino; immigration; identity; ethnicity; education; vocabulary acquisition; media representation Downloads: 198 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010 This video course covers Darwin's model for understanding how natural objects and systems can help understand design. It looks at pre- and post-Darwinian treatment of this topic within literature and speculative thought since the eighteenth century. Instructor: James Paradis View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21L-448JF10 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms Keywords: Darwin; Design; Artificial Intelligence; Intelligent Design Downloads: 6,093 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT_Excitatory_Physics - MIT OpenCourseWare What sorts of things get physicists (or wannabe physicists, like the teacher of this class) excited? Is it the dream of building grand intellectual edifices capable of describing the Universe with amazing accuracy and elegance? Or, perhaps, discovering something so unexpected that it totally blows your mind? Maybe it's simply the act of doing physics! Whatever the case, there are certainly many things in physics to get excited about, and we'll explore some of them in this class. Keywords: MIT; Opencourseware; laws of the Universe; regimes; special relativity; Relativity of simultaneity; Time dilation; Length contraction; general relativity; Black holes; time travel; time machines; quantum mechanics; quantum gravity; Mathematical Universe Hypothesis; Newtonian mechanics; Gyroscopes; electricity and magnetism; Symmetry; Conservation; Unification Downloads: 2,110 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 18.01SC Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2010 - MIT OpenCourseWare Instructors: Christine Breiner, David Jordan, Joel Lewis This calculus course covers differentiation and integration of functions of one variable, and concludes with a brief discussion of infinite series. Calculus is fundamental to many scientific disciplines including physics, engineering, and economics. View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/18-01SCF10 Keywords: recitations; differentiation of functions; integration of functions; limits; continuity; differentiation rules; extremum problems; definite integration; indefinite integration; fundamental theorem of calculus; techniques of integration; approximation of definite integrals; improper integrals; l'Hôpital's rule Downloads: 19,793 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT2-830JS08 - MIT OpenCourseWare This course explores statistical modeling and control in manufacturing processes. Topics include the use of experimental design and response surface modeling to understand manufacturing process physics, as well as defect and parametric yield modeling and optimization. Various forms of process control, including statistical process control, run by run and adaptive control, and real-time feedback control, are covered... Keywords: process control; manufacturing process; discrete system; feedback control theory; empirical; adaptive; modeling; off-line optimization; statistical process control; real-time control; 2.830J; 2.830; robustness; Shewhart Hypothesis; semiconductor manufacturing Downloads: 11,218 |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 2.57 Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes Fall 2004 - MIT OCW This course provides parallel treatments of photons, electrons, phonons, and molecules as energy carriers, aiming at fundamental understanding and descriptive tools for energy and heat transport processes from nanoscale continuously to macroscale. Topics include the energy levels, the statistical behavior and internal energy, energy transport in the forms of waves and particles, scattering and heat generation processes, Boltzmann equation and derivation of classical laws, deviation from classica... Keywords: nanotechnology; nanoscale; transport phenomena; photons; electrons; phonons; energy carriers; energy transport; heat transport; energy levels; statistical behavior; internal energy; waves and particles; scattering; heat generation; Boltzmann equation; classical laws; microtechnology; crystal; lattice; quantum oscillator; laudaurer; nanotube; Louiville equation; X-ray; blackbody; quantum well; Fourier; Newton; Ohm; thermoelectric effect; Brownian motion; surface tension; van der Waals potential Downloads: 6,245 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 6.046J / 18.410J Introduction to Algorithms (SMA 5503), Fall 2005 - MIT OpenCourseWare Keywords: algorithms, efficient algorithms, sorting, search trees, heaps, hashing, divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, amortized analysis, graph algorithms, shortest paths, network flow, computational geometry, number-theoretic algorithms, polynomial and matrix calculations, caching, parallel computing Downloads: 175,238 |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Genomics and Computational Biology - MITOpenCourseWare This course will assess the relationships among sequence, structure, and function in complex biological networks as well as progress in realistic modeling of quantitative, comprehensive, functional genomics analyses. Exercises will include algorithmic, statistical, database, and simulation approaches and practical applications to medicine, biotechnology, drug discovery, and genetic engineering. Future opportunities and current limitations will be critically addressed... Keywords: sequence; structure; function; complex biological networks; quantative modeling; functional genomics analyses; algorithms; statistics; database; simulation; applied medicine; biotechnology; drug discovery; computational biology; genetic engineering Downloads: 5,285 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 6.046J / 18.410J Introduction to Algorithms (SMA 5503), Fall 2005 (2005); Real Media files - MIT OpenCourseWare This course teaches techniques for the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, emphasizing methods useful in practice. Topics covered include: sorting; search trees, heaps, and hashing; divide-and-conquer; dynamic programming; amortized analysis; graph algorithms; shortest paths; network flow; computational geometry; number-theoretic algorithms; polynomial and matrix calculations; caching; and parallel computing... Keywords: algorithms, efficient algorithms, sorting, search trees, heaps, hashing, divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, amortized analysis, graph algorithms, shortest paths, network flow, computational geometry, number-theoretic algorithms, polynomial and matrix calculations, caching, parallel computing Downloads: 5,038 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | MIT 21H.931 Seminar in Historical Methods, Spring 2004 - MIT OpenCourseWare Instructor: Prof. Anne McCants This course is designed to acquaint students with a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century. The books we read have all made significant contributions to their respective sub-fields and have been selected to give as wide a coverage in both field and methodology as possible in one semester's worth of reading. We examine how historians conceive of their object of study, how they use primary sources as a basis for their ac... Keywords: History; Historical; Methods; Sources; Narrative; Analytic; writing methods; historians; annales; gender; middle ages; fantasy; environment; demography; culture Downloads: 8,810 |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | MIT7.013S05 - MIT OpenCourseWare The MIT Biology Department core courses, 7.012, 7.013, and 7.014, all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. Biological function at the molecular level is particularly emphasized and covers the structure and regulation of genes, as well as, the structure and synthesis of proteins, how these molecules are integrated into cells, and how these cells are integrated into multicellular systems and organism... Keywords: biology; biochemistry; genetics; molecular biology; recombinant DNA; cell cycle; cell signaling; cloning; stem cells; cancer; immunology; virology; genomics; molecular medicine; DNA; RNA; proteins; replication; transcription; mRNA; translation; ribosome; nervous system; amino acids; polypeptide chain; cell biology; neurobiology; gene regulation; protein structure; protein synthesis; gene structure; PCR; polymerase chain reaction; protein localization; endoplasmic reticulum; human biology; inherited diseases; developmental biology; evolution; human genetics; human diseases; infectious agents; infectious diseases Downloads: 13,168 |
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